Smarter way of doing this?

[Phil Hornby]

Max,

Why not try something like:

prob_and_val = [[0.66,'item 1'],[0.33,'item 2'],[0.16,'item 3']]

Then access the probability of the first value

prob_and_val[0][0]

the second

prob_and_val[1][0]

and so on...

then you function 'choose_by_probability()'

could return the item instead of the index...

say like this for the first item

return prob_and_val[0][1]

could be called like below:

print choose_by_probability( prob_and_val )

HTH

--
Phil

"Requirements - what are they I just hack something together that does what
I think they want" ;)